FizzyOrange comments on The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

I think you'd have to be a very limited kind of developer - only working in some tiny niche - to make AI completely useless for you. Most programmers occasionally have to do tedious but simple throw-away tasks, or tasks in systems they aren't familiar with. AI absolutely can save you time in these cases.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

But many of us automated those tasks out of our workflows decades ago.

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless you're never doing new development you can't automate them. The kinds of tasks I've used this for:

Making an HTML visualisation of some complex function inputs. One-off project. I could totally do this but it would take me way longer.
Formatting a complex and very long SystemVerilog file. There aren't any existing SystemVerilog formatters (and certainly none that would handle the insane level of ifdefs in this file).
Writing a script to delete all Git branches at a particular commit. I only used this once.
Writing an Asciidoctor custom annotation. I don't know Ruby so...

You can't automate any of those.

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